Dal Innovates turns promising ideas into revenue-generating businesses

Globe and Mail Feature – Dal Innovation Week

Pleased to share this article in The Globe and Mail featuring Dr. Ravi Kempaiah’s journey with Zen Energy, revolutionizing battery tech for e-bikes, and Dr. Rafaela Andrade’s Myomar Molecular Inc., developing innovative tools to help fight muscle degeneration.

This story comes out just ahead of the inaugural Dal Innovation Week running from September 16 to 21 and highlights how Dal Innovates’ transformative network which includes Lab2Market Launch, Dalhousie Emera ideaHUB, and Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic is turning groundbreaking research into thriving businesses.

Please read the full article to learn more about how Dal Innovates and Dalhousie University are bridging the gap between lab research and commercial success, and how we’re inspiring the next generation of innovators!

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About Dalhousie University

Dalhousie is the only East Coast member of Canada’s U15, the country’s leading group of research-intensive universities. With more than 250 million dollars in annual research funding, we are Atlantic Canada’s engine of discovery and innovation. Anchored in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with additional agricultural and medical campuses and academic and clinical programs across the province and beyond, we drive positive change in the communities we serve locally, nationally, and around the world. Our faculty work within a highly collaborative research community supported by major infrastructure, including Canada’s largest aquatic research facility and advanced platforms accelerating discoveries in health and the physical sciences. Researchers contribute to and benefit from a growing network of centres, institutes, and hubs driving discovery and industry partnership in areas like battery innovation and clean technologies, carbon capture and storage, additive manufacturing, AI and semiconductors, vaccine and immunotherapy development, genomics, cancer treatment, and much more.